Welcome fans of mma. Im going to give you guys and gals a look into what goes on in our world as mma fighters. And what its like training and then being a coach to other fighters at the same time. Glad to be apart of you guys lives.

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12/02/2010

This page is devoted to bringing attention to Colorado MMA. Our main goal is to get more mainstream media coverage for local fighters, gyms, and events.

General Information:

The sport of Mixed Martial Arts is at a cross roads that will determine the future of not only the sport itself, but the lives of the people within it. This sport, long adored by the fans who understand it, long ignored and ridiculed by those who don’t, needs mainstream support locally. This is where this fan page comes in.

Fighters across Colorado, and surrounding states, rely heavily on the media communication of websites, social media pages, and grass roots campaigns to sell tickets, get sponsors and bring general attention to this craft. Promoters buy time on local radio/TV stations to advertise their product. Local MMA radio shows are relegated to odd time slots, and then bumped for other, more popular sports.

Amateur fighters face careers that may never take off, simply because they cannot find sponsors to help pay for training, and as such, never get time from their regular jobs and lives to participate in the sport. Gyms open to fanfare, and close months later due to a lack of customers that extend beyond the typical MMA fan or fighter. Professional, local mixed martial artists face the danger of never competing at a higher level due to the elite nature and comparably small number of slots available in promotions like the UFC. Local sponsors never are able to make sales online, or at events, but rarely just from the casual customer looking for products related to MMA or that support MMA.

All of this, must change.

My name is Luke Henderson, I have been a writer most of my life and currently write for Around The Octagon and Westword Magazine. My desire is to see all of this change. I want to see sponsors begging for a chance to be associated with a fighter, for local TV to have good stories with good videos about local events, treating them the same way they would any major sporting event. I want to see local sports radio spending time discussing Colorado MMA and the brilliant people within it. I want already established media sources like MMA Buzz, Mile High Sports Station, and anyone else who supports local MMA to be given the credit they deserve.

And I want all of this, now. However, I cannot do this without your help.

Each week, perhaps more often as needed, I will be bringing you information on how you can further the cause of local Colorado MMA. This is not a page to talk about particular fights, cards, sponsors, promoters, fighters, or anything like that. This page is devoted to creating a ground swell of support in Colorado by showing how fans can put pressure on media groups, celebrate those that are helping, and become involved in the local scene in a way that enriches it for generations to come.

If you LIKE this page, you are accepting a certain amount of responsibility. When information is sent out from here, you must act on it. If we tell you to contact a TV station to demand MMA coverage, do it. If we tell you to thank a newspaper for running a story on a fighter, do it. If you are a sponsor, or a promoter, and you see media supporting MMA, you need to advertise with them!

Above all else I want you to leave with this notion. The fighters, both men and women, put their bodies and lives on the lines each and every time they step in that ring. For those that love this sport, and have followed it, we all know fighters that have been injured, or given up due to a lack of funding.

If for nothing else, help us change the perception and popularity of Colorado MMA for the fighters and their families.

Together, we can show Colorado and the world, that MMA is a beautiful sport and worthy of their respect and attention.

The sport of Mixed Martial Arts is at a cross roads that will determine the future of not only the sport itself, but the lives of the people within it. This sport, long adored by the fans who understand it, long ignored and ridiculed by those who don’t, needs mainstream support locally. This is where this fan page comes in.